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- 13.5.1 Explain what is meant by clinical governance
- Clinical governance is a systematic framework to maintaining and improving the quality of patient care within the National Health Service, (NHS). As such NHS organisations (hospitals & trusts alike) are accountable for continually improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care, by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish and is achieved by using some (if not all) of the seven core elements:
- Education and Training
- Clinical audit
- Clinical effectiveness
- Research and development
- Openness
- Risk management
- Information Management
- In short, it's doing the right thing, at the right time, by the right person—the application of the best evidence to a patient's problem, in the way the patient wishes, by an appropriately trained and resourced individual or team. But that's not all—that individual or team must work within an organisation that is accountable for the actions of its staff, values its staff (appraises and develops them), minimises risks, and learns from good practice, and indeed mistakes.
- http://southtees.nhs.uk/about/trust/healthcare-governance/clinical-governance/
- https://www.rcn.org.uk/clinical-topics/clinical-governance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_governance
- https://www.bmj.com/content/330/7506/s254.3
- https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/clinical-governance-components.htm
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/newborn-hearing-screening-programme-nhsp-operational-guidance/4-clinical-governance
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